Antigone
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There are many who try to reconcile the tensions in Antigone, from Ismene who advises Antigone to be cautious to Creon himself who in vain decides to free Antigone from her rocky vault and raise a mound for the dead body of her brother he exposed. However, it is the old seer, Tiresias, whose angry prophecies to the insulting Creon finally make Creon recognize the error of his pride and stubbornness. Like he informs Oedipus he is the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother, so Tiresias explains to Creon it is his fault that Thebes is doomed to plague “And it is you—your high resolve that sets this plague on Thebes” (Sophocles 111).Creon chooses to deny the old seer’s prophecies and insults him by telling him they are lies and he was bribed to say such monstrous things. H
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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